A Rule Ammendment - a poll with a point :)

[Laowai]

I voted "No."

As you've said, a bomber or gunboat can vaporize a transport with equal ease as, say, an Osiris. Personally, I think the rule should be changed to disallow gunboats. The purpose of the rule is to give the transport some chance at escape. Now that we're blurring the lines between gunboat/bomber/cruiser, it's becoming more and more ridiculous.

As a side note, there is every reason to suspect that the situation in question was dubious in it's legitimacy. I would suggest we keep this thread on topic about the rule and not the player or circumstance.

True - Hence why i didnt mention any players names, just the incident - but the important thing here is the motivation behind such incidents and the rules. If your suggestions of disallowing even gunboats the freedom to attack traders were implemented you would nerf half the unlawful fleets in sirius, particularly the corsairs own OPG - but remember i'm, not talking about "pirating" here, im talking about enforcing faction RP rules in the a capital vessel. In my opinion there has not been a convincing argument against allowing this, short of "its in the rules" which is hardly an argument.
A double standard clearly applies between what lawfuls and unlawfuls can do. That double standard, while possibly introduced with the best of intentions, unfairly restricts the Role Play of one class of player - it also creates the completely OORP situation of an unlawful ship being unable to enforce laws on a trader in their own house - whereas a lawful player can.... when in fact, if anyone was more likely to open fire on a ship carrying "contraband" (and remember that term is entirely relative) one could argue that it would be the "unlawful".

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